The Republican journal., 1887-08-25
Generalities.

Connecticut ronvict> are to wear striped
suits hereafter.
The population of Great Britain is increasing
at the rate of 1000 Il day.
The Georgia rice crop has been almos! M
tircy destroyed by floods.
All is quiet in Honolulu, and the control of
the new ministry is complete.
Three Canadian cruisers were seized by a
United States cruiser in the Bchriny Sea.
The liquor dealers arc going to make Il hard
fight against the prohibitonstS in Tennessee.
A clergyman at Battle Creek, Mich, refuses
to attend Il funeral unless fee of SO is guaran-
teed.
The raisin crop in California this year will
reach 100000 boxes, and the quality will be
the best.
\ good corn crop is promised in Kansas,
Missouri and Iowa, but small yields in Illinois
and Indiana.
Virginia republicans have decided to hold no
state Convention, but an address to the people
will be issued.
New York and PittSburg capitalists have
just paid $1,OOO,O0 for lumber lands in
Georgia and South Carolina.
There is Il feeling among leaders in New
Hampshire politics in favOr'of returning" to an
nual sessions of the Legislature.
The Besscmcr Consolidated Iron Company of
New York has purchased five GoSebic iron
mines in Wisconsin for $2,32O, 900.
Cholera has broken out in the Northwest of
India. New cases and several deaths are re-
ported from the previously infected districts.
The report of the Hudson Bay exploration
| expedition recommends Il close season of five
years in the bay to prevent the extinction of
whales
The government crop report shows that corn
and cotton promise we'll and tobacco and fruit
very poorly, while spring wheat is no better
than last month.
sam Woo, Il Chinese laundryman, has sued
the Detroit Free Press, claiming $l0,OOO dam
his establishment.
The Massachusetts Commissioners on Con-
tagious Diseases among Domestic Animals
have established a quarantine against cattle
from New York State.
The Union Labor convention at Rochester.
n. T., last week adopted Il resolution in favor
of protective tariff, prohibition of foreign i'm
| migration and compulsory education.
The Rocky Mountain locust has made its APP
pearancc in large numbers in the Beaver River
settlement, forty miles from Saskatoon, North-
| west Territory, and has eaten up the crops.
The Progressive Order of American Work.
ingmen, established in Chicago, is designed to
prevent strikes by arbitration or otherwise and
to promote harmony between employer and
employc.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is informed that
| smallpox and yellow fever are raging in IIa.
vana, Cuba. During the month of July there
were 104 deaths from yellow fever and IL from
smallpox.
The imports of iron and steel for the fiscal
year of 1887 were heavier than in any other
year, except that of 1880. The total cost to our
people for the iron and steel imported the past
year, including freight, insurance. duties, etc.,
was $G3, 100000.
Mr.. +. G. Bertrand, the author of "Gran,l-
fathers Clock" died recently in London hos
pita 1t was the only production of his that
ever became popular, and it was the publishers
who made little fortune out of the chance sue
cess, and not the author.
Mr.. Joseph Francis, the famous inventor of
lfc-saving apparatus, who has long been Il resi-
dent of New Jersey, has gone to San Diego,
California. to live permanently. Mr.. Francis
is now eighty years old. lie is accompanied by
his son, who Is past fifty years old.
New government envelopes, II Is said, are to
he issued about September 10. The onc-cent
envelopes will be blue in color, the two-cent
green, the fOlr-cGnt carminc, the five-cent mill
Ori blue. the 10 cent chocolate the 30 cent Bis
marck brown, and the 30 cent purple. The 10,
30 and 30 cent stamps will not be changed.
The new flags adopted in the United States
Signal Service are rs follows: A white flag will
indicate fair weather. A blue flag indicate rain
or snow. A black flag is used to indicate tenn
peraturc. When placed above the white or
blue flag it means warmer; when placed below
them 1t indicates colder. The cold wave flag is
white with black center. The code of wealth